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I Suspected That There Were Things He Knew That I Had Been Waiting All My Life To Learn.

You Cannot Be An Egomaniac On The Horse. If You Lose Your Temper And Start Beating Him, Either You Will Destroy Him, Or He Will Destroy You. As Soon As You Start Riding Horses Seriously, You're Being Disciplined On A Daily Basis About How Ignorant You Are And What There Is Left For You To Learn.

Horse Racing Is Really Much More Intimidating Than Anything Having To Do With Literature. When I Had Horses At The Racetrack, I Would Wake Up In Terror In A Way That I Would Never Wake Up While Working On A Novel.

A Novelist Has Two Lives-- A Reading And Writing Life, And A Lived Life. He Or She Cannot Be Understood At All Apart From This.

Vets Do What Doctors Used To - Diagnose The Injury Or The Condition, Patch It Up As Best They Can And Remind You That These Things Happen And That In Life We Are Also In The Midst Of Death.